IAS officer Saket Kumar was Friday appointed as private secretary to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, a government order said.
Kumar’s appointment has been approved till July 29, 2023, bythe competent authority, the order issued by the Personnel Ministry said.
He is a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS)officer of the Bihar cadre.
Kumar was last year appointed as private secretary (PS) toManoj Sinha, who was then the MoS (Independent charge) for Communications andMoS Railways.
In another order, M Imkongla Jamir was appointed PS toTextiles and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani till July 22,2020, which happens to be the balance period of five years as private secretaryto a minister.
Jamir is a 2002-batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre andwas in 2015 appointed as PS to Irani, who was then the Human ResourceDevelopment Minister.
Bureaucrat Ashish Kumar has been appointed as privatesecretary to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, for the balance period of fouryears, till August 27, 2021.
He is a 2005-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre.
Singh holds multiple portfolios as MoS (Independent charge)in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, Personnel, PublicGrievances and Pensions, Prime Minister’s Office, Atomic Energy and Space.Ashish Kumar worked as the minister’s PS for abrief period of time last year.